You know that magical moment when your kid’s eyes light up after learning something new? 

If you’re a parent looking to spice up study time, a teacher searching for engaging classroom activities, or just someone who loves watching kids learn new things, you’re in for a treat.

From mind-bending historical facts to cool science mysteries, 250 questions that’ll make learning a blast. 

Jump into this blog to explore!

Why Are Trivia Questions Important?

Trivia questions spark joy and curiosity in children’s minds while serving as powerful learning tools. They make education fun and interactive, helping kids retain information better than traditional methods.

These questions encourage critical thinking, boost confidence when they know the answers, and create excitement about discovering new facts.

Most importantly, trivia helps children connect different pieces of knowledge while having a great time with friends and family.

Fun Historical 6th Grade Trivia Questions

1. Question: Which ancient civilization built the Great Pyramids of Giza?

Answer: The Ancient Egyptians

2. Question: What famous document begins with “We the People”?

Answer: The United States Constitution

3. Question: Which explorer is credited with discovering America in 1492?

Answer: Christopher Columbus

4. Question: What was the name of the first successful English colony in America?

Answer: Jamestown

5. Question: Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

6. Question: What ancient wonder of the world was located in the city of Babylon?

Answer: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

7. Question: Who was the first President of the United States?

Answer: George Washington

8. Question: What event sparked World War I in 1914?

Answer: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

9. Question: Which civilization is credited with inventing paper?

Answer: The Ancient Chinese

10. Question: What was the name of the ship that carried the Pilgrims to America?

Answer: The Mayflower

11. Question: Which queen ruled England for 63 years during the Victorian Era?

Answer: Queen Victoria

12. Question: What ancient civilization built the city of Machu Picchu?

Answer: The Inca

13. Question: Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer: Amelia Earhart

14. Question: What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?

Answer: Sputnik 1

15. Question: Which U.S. President freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

16. Question: What was the name of the ancient trade route that connected China with Europe?

Answer: The Silk Road

17. Question: Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

18. Question: What ancient civilization developed democracy?

Answer: The Ancient Greeks

19. Question: Who was the first European explorer to reach India by sea?

Answer: Vasco da Gama

20. Question: What was the nickname for the period of tension between the USA and USSR after World War II?

Answer: The Cold War

21. Question: Who was the legendary king of Camelot?

Answer: King Arthur

22. Question: What ancient civilization built the Great Wall of China?

Answer: The Chinese

23. Question: Who invented the printing press?

Answer: Johannes Gutenberg

24. Question: What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin sailed on during his famous voyage?

Answer: HMS Beagle

25. Question: Which empire was ruled by Julius Caesar?

Answer: The Roman Empire

26. Question: What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Answer: Jamestown, Virginia

27. Question: Who wrote the “I Have a Dream” speech?

Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.

28. Question: What ancient civilization built the city of Petra?

Answer: The Nabataeans

29. Question: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

Answer: Marie Curie

30. Question: What was the name of the first successful powered aircraft?

Answer: The Wright Flyer

31. Question: Which pharaoh’s tomb was discovered nearly intact in 1922?

Answer: King Tutankhamun (King Tut)

32. Question: What was the capital of the Aztec Empire?

Answer: Tenochtitlan

33. Question: Who led the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to freedom?

Answer: Harriet Tubman

34. Question: What ancient civilization invented the alphabet?

Answer: The Phoenicians

35. Question: Who was the first person to step on the moon?

Answer: Neil Armstrong

36. Question: What was the name of Rosa Parks’ bus company?

Answer: Montgomery Bus Line

37. Question: Which president appears on the penny?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

38. Question: What was the largest empire in history?

Answer: The Mongol Empire

39. Question: Who discovered penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming

40. Question: What city was the first capital of the United States?

Answer: New York City

41. Question: Which Native American helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter?

Answer: Squanto

42. Question: What was the name of the first human civilization?

Answer: The Sumerians

43. Question: Who was known as the “Father of Medicine”?

Answer: Hippocrates

44. Question: What was the name of the first successful American newspaper?

Answer: The Boston News-Letter

45. Question: Which civilization built the pyramids of Teotihuacan?

Answer: The Teotihuacanos

46. Question: Who wrote “Poor Richard’s Almanack”?

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

47. Question: What was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution?

Answer: Delaware

48. Question: Which ancient civilization developed the concept of zero?

Answer: The Ancient Indians (Mayans also independently developed it)

49. Question: Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

Answer: Thurgood Marshall

50. Question: What was the name of the first successful English newspaper?

Answer: The London Gazette

6th Grade Trivia Questions For Geography Lovers 

51. Question: What is the capital city of Japan?

Answer: Tokyo

52. Question: Which continent is the largest by land area?

Answer: Asia

53.  Question: What is the longest river in the world?

Answer: The Nile River

54. Question: Which mountain range runs through South America?

Answer: The Andes Mountains

55. Question: What is the largest country in the world by area?

Answer: Russia

56. Question: Which desert is the largest hot desert in the world?

Answer: The Sahara Desert

57. Question: What is the smallest continent?

Answer: Australia

58. Question: Which country has the shape of a boot?

Answer: Italy

59. Question: What is the capital city of Australia?

Answer: Canberra

60. Question: Which ocean is the largest?

Answer: The Pacific Ocean

61. Question: What is the highest mountain in the world?

Answer: Mount Everest

62. Question: Which country has the most islands in the world?

Answer: Sweden

63. Question: What is the largest rainforest in the world?

Answer: The Amazon Rainforest

64. Question: Which continent contains the most countries?

Answer: Africa

65. Question: What is the deepest point in the ocean?

Answer: The Mariana Trench

66. Question: Which country is home to the Great Barrier Reef?

Answer: Australia

67. Question: What is the longest mountain range in the world?

Answer: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (underwater) or the Andes (on land)

68. Question: Which country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun?

Answer: Japan

69. Question: What is the largest lake in the world by area?

Answer: The Caspian Sea

70. Question: Which country is home to the most pyramids?

Answer: Sudan

71. Question: What is the capital city of Canada?

Answer: Ottawa

72. Question: Which continent is the only one to span all four hemispheres?

Answer: Africa

73. Question: What is the longest river in North America?

Answer: The Missouri River

74. Question: Which country is the smallest in the world?

Answer: Vatican City

75. Question: What is the largest island in the world?

Answer: Greenland

76. Question: Which sea is the saltiest in the world?

Answer: The Dead Sea

77. Question: What is the capital city of Brazil?

Answer: Brasília

78. Question: Which country is home to the most volcanoes?

Answer: Indonesia

79. Question: What is the highest waterfall in the world?

Answer: Angel Falls in Venezuela

80. Question: Which country has the longest coastline?

Answer: Canada

81. Question: What is the largest bay in the world?

Answer: The Bay of Bengal

82. Question: Which country is located at the southernmost tip of Africa?

Answer: South Africa

83. Question: What is the capital city of China?

Answer: Beijing

84. Question: Which sea separates Europe from Africa?

Answer: The Mediterranean Sea

85. Question: What is the largest peninsula in the world?

Answer: The Arabian Peninsula

86. Question: Which country is known as the Land of Fire and Ice?

Answer: Iceland

87. Question: What is the lowest point on Earth’s surface?

Answer: The Dead Sea

88. Question: Which country has the most lakes?

Answer: Canada

89. Question: What is the largest gulf in the world?

Answer: The Gulf of Mexico

90. Question: Which mountain is the highest in North America?

Answer: Denali (formerly Mount McKinley)

91. Question: What is the capital city of India?

Answer: New Delhi

92. Question: Which river flows through the Grand Canyon?

Answer: The Colorado River

93. Question: What is the largest country in South America?

Answer: Brazil

94. Question: Which desert is the coldest in the world?

Answer: The Antarctic Desert

95. Question: What is the name of the strait between Alaska and Russia?

Answer: The Bering Strait

96. Question: Which country is shaped like a hexagon?

Answer: France

97. Question: What is the largest lake in Africa?

Answer: Lake Victoria

98. Question: Which country has the most time zones?

Answer: France (including overseas territories)

99. Question: What is the capital city of Mexico?

Answer: Mexico City

100. Question: Which mountain range separates Europe from Asia?

Answer: The Ural Mountains

6th Grade Trivia Science Questions For Nerds

101. Question: What is the hardest natural substance on Earth?

Answer: Diamond

102. Question: What is the closest planet to the Sun?

Answer: Mercury

103. Question: What are the three states of matter?

Answer: Solid, liquid, and gas

104. Question: Which planet is known as the Red Planet?

Answer: Mars

105. Question: What is the powerhouse of the cell?

Answer: Mitochondria

106. Question: What is the speed of light?

Answer: 299,792 kilometers per second

107. Question: What is the largest organ in the human body?

Answer: Skin

108. Question: What force keeps us on the ground?

Answer: Gravity

109. Question: What is the process by which plants make their food?

Answer: Photosynthesis

110. Question: What are the primary colors of light?

Answer: Red, green, and blue

111. Question: Which bone is the longest in the human body?

Answer: Femur (thighbone)

112. Question: What is the chemical symbol for gold?

Answer: Au

113. Question: What type of energy does the Sun provide?

Answer: Solar energy (heat and light energy)

114. Question: What is the largest organ inside the human body?

Answer: Liver

115. Question: What gas do plants absorb from the air?

Answer: Carbon dioxide (CO2)

116. Question: What is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere?

Answer: Nitrogen

117. Question: How many chambers does a human heart have?

Answer: Four chambers

118. Question: What are baby frogs called?

Answer: Tadpoles

119. Question: What is the process of water changing from liquid to gas called?

Answer: Evaporation

120. Question: Which planet has the most moons?

Answer: Jupiter

121. Question: What is the smallest unit of life?

Answer: Cell

122. Question: What mineral helps make teeth and bones strong?

Answer: Calcium

123. Question: What is the name of the force that makes things float?

Answer: Buoyancy

124. Question: What do you call a scientist who studies rocks?

Answer: Geologist

125. Question: What is the largest species of shark?

Answer: Whale shark

126. Question: What is the human body’s average temperature?

Answer: 98.6°F (37°C)

127. Question: What causes ocean tides?

Answer: The Moon’s gravitational pull

128. Question: What is the process of a liquid changing to a solid called?

Answer: Freezing

129. Question: What protects the Earth from harmful UV rays?

Answer: The ozone layer

130. Question: What is the smallest bone in the human body?

Answer: The stapes (in the ear)

131. Question: What type of simple machine is a seesaw?

Answer: A lever

132. Question: What is the study of weather called?

Answer: Meteorology

133. Question: What gas do humans exhale when they breathe?

Answer: Carbon dioxide (CO2)

134. Question: What is the name of the boundary between two tectonic plates?

Answer: Fault line

135. Question: What is the only planet that rotates clockwise?

Answer: Venus

136. Question: What are animals without a backbone called?

Answer: Invertebrates

137. Question: What is the hardest substance in the human body?

Answer: Tooth enamel

138. Question: What do you call a group of stars that forms a pattern?

Answer: Constellation

139. Question: What is the process of solid changing directly to gas called?

Answer: Sublimation

140. Question: What are the building blocks of proteins?

Answer: Amino acids

141. Question: What is the fastest land animal?

Answer: Cheetah

142. Question: What type of energy is stored in food?

Answer: Chemical energy

143. Question: What is the study of fossils called?

Answer: Paleontology

144. Question: What are the three types of rock?

Answer: Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

145. Question: What is the largest species of penguin?

Answer: Emperor penguin

146. Question: What do you call a scientist who studies space?

Answer: Astronomer

147. Question: What is the strongest muscle in the human body?

Answer: The masseter (jaw muscle)

148. Question: What are female bees who lay eggs called?

Answer: Queen bees

149. Question: What gas makes up most of the Sun?

Answer: Hydrogen

150. Question: What is the study of living things called?

Answer: Biology

6th Grade Math Trivia Questions 

151. Question: What is the only even prime number?

Answer: 2

152. Question: What is the name for a polygon with eight sides?

Answer: Octagon

153. Question: What is the sum of angles in a triangle?

Answer: 180 degrees

154. Question: What is the value of pi to two decimal places?

Answer: 3.14

155. Question: What type of angle measures more than 90 degrees?

Answer: Obtuse angle

156. Question: What is the name for a three-dimensional circle?

Answer: Sphere

157. Question: What is 7 squared?

Answer: 49

158. Question: What is the perimeter of a square with sides of 5 units?

Answer: 20 units

159. Question: What is the term for a number that can be divided evenly only by 1 and itself?

Answer: Prime number

160. Question: What is the median of the numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 10?

Answer: 6

161. Question: How many faces does a cube have?

Answer: 6 faces

162. Question: What is the square root of 144?

Answer: 12

163. Question: What is the name for a line that divides a circle into two equal parts?

Answer: Diameter

164. Question: What is 3 cubed?

Answer: 27

165. Question: What is the greatest common factor of 12 and 18?

Answer: 6

166. Question: What is the mode in the series: 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 3, 6?

Answer: 3

167. Question: How many edges does a cube have?

Answer: 12 edges

168. Question: What is the smallest perfect number?

Answer: 6

169. Question: What is the area of a square with sides of 7 units?

Answer: 49 square units

170. Question: What is the name for a triangle with three equal sides?

Answer: Equilateral triangle

171. Question: What is half of a quarter?

Answer: One-eighth (1/8)

172. Question: What is the sum of the first five prime numbers?

Answer: 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 = 28

173. Question: What is the name for a four-sided figure with four equal sides?

Answer: Square

174. Question: What is the least common multiple of 4 and 6?

Answer: 12

175. Question: What is a polygon with six sides called?

Answer: Hexagon

176. Question: What is the value of Roman numeral XXXV?

Answer: 35

177. Question: What is the circumference of a circle with radius 5 units?

Answer: 31.4 units (2πr)

178. Question: What type of triangle has two equal sides?

Answer: Isosceles triangle

179. Question: What is 25% of 200?

Answer: 50

180. Question: What is the sum of angles in a quadrilateral?

Answer: 360 degrees

181. Question: What is the next number in the sequence: 2, 4, 8, 16, …?

Answer: 32

182. Question: What is the area of a rectangle with length 8 and width 5?

Answer: 40 square units

183. Question: What is the product of any number and zero?

Answer: Zero

184. Question: What is the name of a triangle with a right angle?

Answer: Right triangle

185. Question: What is 1000 divided by 10?

Answer: 100

186. Question: What is the decimal equivalent of 3/4?

Answer: 0.75

187. Question: How many vertices does a cube have?

Answer: 8 vertices

188. Question: What is the next prime number after 17?

Answer: 19

189. Question: What is the sum of complementary angles?

Answer: 90 degrees

190. Question: What is 20% written as a decimal?

Answer: 0.20

191. Question: What is the perimeter of a triangle with sides 3, 4, and 5?

Answer: 12 units

192. Question: What is the value of 5 factorial (5!)?

Answer: 120

193. Question: What is the name for the longest side of a right triangle?

Answer: Hypotenuse

194. Question: What is the radius of a circle with diameter 10?

Answer: 5

195. Question: What is the sum of supplementary angles?

Answer: 180 degrees

196. Question: What is the area of a triangle with base 6 and height 4?

Answer: 12 square units

197. Question: What is the name for a line that touches a circle at exactly one point?

Answer: Tangent

198. Question: What is one-third of 99?

Answer: 33

199. Question: What is the ratio of centimeters to meters?

Answer: 100:1

200. Question: What is the product of the first four counting numbers?

Answer: 24 (1 × 2 × 3 × 4)

6th Grade Fun Fact Trivia Questions 

201. Question: What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

Answer: A keyboard

202. Question: What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

Answer: A clock

203. Question: What starts with ‘e’, ends with ‘e’, but only contains one letter?

Answer: An envelope

204. Question: What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?

Answer: A map

205. Question: If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?

Answer: A secret

206. Question: The more you take away from me, the larger I become. What am I?

Answer: A hole

207. Question: What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

Answer: A river

208. Question: How many months have 28 days?

Answer: All of them!

209. Question: What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?

Answer: Your name

210. Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

Answer: A stamp

211. Question: What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

Answer: The future

212. Question: What has legs but doesn’t walk?

Answer: A table

213. Question: What kind of room has no doors or windows?

Answer: A mushroom

214. Question: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

Answer: A towel

215. Question: What has one head, one foot, and four legs?

Answer: A bed

216. Question: What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?

Answer: Trouble

217. Question: What can you catch but not throw?

Answer: A cold

218. Question: What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?

Answer: Charcoal

219. Question: What breaks when you say it?

Answer: Silence

220. Question: What has many keys but no locks?

Answer: A piano

221. Question: What goes up but never comes down?

Answer: Your age

222. Question: What invention lets you look right through a wall?

Answer: A window

223. Question: What has a neck but no head?

Answer: A bottle

224. Question: What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?

Answer: Your left elbow

225. Question: What has teeth but cannot bite?

Answer: A comb

226. Question: What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?

Answer: Post Office

227. Question: What is full of holes but still holds water?

Answer: A sponge

228. Question: What two numbers, when added together, have the same answer as when multiplied together?

Answer: 2 and 2

229. Question: What is found at the beginning of eternity and at the end of time and space?

Answer: The letter ‘E’

230. Question: What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Answer: Short (add ‘er’ to make shorter)

231. Question: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour?

Answer: The letter ‘M’

232. Question: What runs around the whole yard without moving?

Answer: A fence

233. Question: What building has the most stories?

Answer: A library

234. Question: What can’t be burned in fire, nor drowned in water?

Answer: Ice (it melts instead)

235. Question: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

Answer: A palm tree

236. Question: What is always coming but never arrives?

Answer: Tomorrow

237. Question: What has keys that open no doors, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

Answer: A keyboard

238. Question: What has four wheels and flies?

Answer: A garbage truck

239. Question: What gets sharper the more you use it?

Answer: Your brain

240. Question: What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

Answer: Silence

241. Question: What can fill up a room but takes up no space?

Answer: Light

242. Question: What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

Answer: A glove

243. Question: What is made of water but if you put it into water it will die?

Answer: An ice cube

244. Question: What can be caught but never thrown?

Answer: Your breath

245. Question: What has banks but no money?

Answer: A river

246. Question: What goes up when rain comes down?

Answer: An umbrella

247. Question: What has many needles but doesn’t sew?

Answer: A pine tree

248. Question: What has words but never speaks?

Answer: A book

249. Question: What runs but has no legs?

Answer: A nose

250. Question: What can you serve but never eat?

Answer: A tennis ball

Tips for Making the Trivia More Engaging and Fun

Getting 6th graders excited about trivia takes more than just questions and answers. Let’s make learning feel like play!

Start With What They Love:

• Mix in pop culture references they know
• Include topics from their favorite shows and games
• Add questions about current events that interest them
• Include local school happenings in your questions

Make It Interactive:

• Split the class into small teams
• Use buzzer sounds for right answers
• Create a point system with small prizes
• Let students create some questions too
• Add movement – stand up for true, sit down for false

Keep It Moving:

• Set quick time limits for answers
• Switch topics every few minutes
• Include brain breaks between rounds
• Mix easy and harder questions

Add Fun Twists:

• Include silly bonus questions
• Make wrong answers funny, not frustrating
• Use music during thinking time
• Let teams pick categories

Remember: The goal is to make learning feel like a game show, not a test. When kids laugh while they learn, they remember more!

Wrappin Up!

There you have it – a treasure chest of knowledge disguised as fun!

These trivia questions aren’t just about getting the right answers; they’re about sparking moments that make learning unforgettable.

These brain-teasers can turn a quiet classroom into a buzzing hub of excitement or transform a dull evening at home into an engaging family quiz night.

From history’s tales to science’s mind-blowing facts, each question opens a new door to learning.

So grab these questions, gather your 6th graders, and watch as them acquire knowledge with eager minds!